We are thrilled to announce Gathering’s participation in Art SG 2024, which opens to the public on Friday 19 January at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre in Singapore. The gallery will present an immersive solo booth by Tai Shani.
Tai Shani’s artistic practice, comprising performance, film, photography, and installation, uses experimental writing as a guiding method. Oscillating between theoretical concepts and visceral details, Shani’s texts attempt to create poetic coordinates in order to cultivate, fragmentary cosmologies of marginalised nonsovereignty.
Shani's solo presentation includes two new wall-based works, JdA Empyrean Burning (2023) and GdR Mouth of the Source (2023). JdA Empyrean Burning fuses the sinuous and ethereal with the geometric and constructed. The canvas is delicately marbled in pale hues that outline a solid, architectural shape over which hover supple lines that twist like dark ribbons and orbs of colour — peach and scarlet. These bright orbs seem to hover on the surface of the paintings, as if flat against the retina. The painting is an abstract interpretation of ‘The Magician’ tarot card in the Rider-Waite deck, which depicts a magician with one hand pointing above and the other below, a symbol of the coalescing of the spiritual and physical worlds.
GdR Mouth of the Source presents a portal into a blood red chamber, a chamber as organic interior, drawing from the sets in Carl Dreyer’s ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc.’ Its structure is an abstraction of the ‘The World’ tarot card in the Rider-Waite deck, depicted by a woman dancing holding a baton in each hand surrounded by a green wreath - a symbol of completeness.
Photography by Toni Cuhadi
